YOKO ONO Blood Objects from Family Album Announcement.
Announcement printed on plastic bag containing a painted key with string and printed card, 1995. 175x101 mm; 6x4 inches (bag). Designed by the artist and Eileen Boxer, Ubu Gallery, New York.
Ono (born 1933) and Boxer conceived this blood object, a key dipped in red paint, to be incorporated into a mailer announcing Ono's exhibition "Drawings from Franklin Summer and Blood Objects from Family Album," Ubu Gallery, New York, October 28-December 12, 1995. Bronze objects in the Family Album series were splattered with red cadmium paint, symbolizing global violence touching daily life.
